
Dr. Despoina Mouratidis is a Researcher and Academic Tutor at the Ionian University, Greece. She holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Ioannina, an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Informatics and Humanities), and a Ph.D. in Informatics (2021) from the Ionian University. Her doctoral thesis focused on the multimodal evaluation of stochastic machine translation. She has also successfully completed her postdoctoral research on "Machine Learning in Semantic Analysis of Cultural Data." Currently, Dr. Mouratidis has a broad teaching portfolio. She serves as a Tutor in the postgraduate Data Science and Machine Learning program at the Hellenic Open University and as a Contract Tutor at the Department of Informatics, Ionian University. Additionally, she delivers guest lectures at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, while also working as a mathematician in secondary education. As a member of the Humanistic & Social Informatics Laboratory, her research interests encompass natural language processing, deep learning architectures, fake news detection, and the evaluation of machine translation systems. She has actively contributed to major European and national research projects (Horizon 2020 TraMOOC, ENIRISST+). Dr. Mouratidis has authored numerous publications—receiving a Best Paper Award in 2021—and regularly serves on the program and organizing committees for AI and NLP conferences, including SETN and RANLP.